I am Hmong and grew up in a culture of ceremonies and stories of the spirit world. I started to hear about this spirit world when I was 3 or 4 when the elders would tell us stories to scare us into behaving and not wandering off where we shouldn't. They were good storytellers and I cl...

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In Cuba’s capital city, the Nuevo Vedado residential district relates something of the history of the country. Before the 1959 revolution, this green area was planned out as a pleasant setting for modern houses not separated by walls or hedges, something akin to a park...

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He is one of those photographers who, in the last fifteen years, has had the greatest influence on the younger generation. His grainy black and white, his images stretched between fact and fiction, the perception of a floating universe in which time is always a key issue made ...

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Back in the mid 1960’s when magazines featured photojournalism and the likes of Life in the United States or Paris-Match in France sold over a million copies, Cambodia had its very own Kambudja, a monthly of the same type. You could get it either...

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Painter, photographer, painter and photographer, image maker and creator, doing collages, tying things together, he comes up with worlds that blend a rich iconography of the real and the imaginary, always bringing forms into line. His ongoing quest is for material, color, possibil...

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Yesterday in Phnom Penh, His Excellency Khieu Khanarith, Minister of Information, oversaw the first tribute to the French photographer Gilles Caron in the country where he disappeared in April, 1970. A plaque with the final portrait taken of Caron, stan...

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Rattana is one of these photographers for whom an image can only be conceived based from the thought that is behind it. In Phnom Penh, he was a major contributor to the analytical thinking of the photography practice before he left for Europe. He exhibits the pictures he shot in ...

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Doing black and white work on social issues, Phan Phearith clearly fits in with a tradition, that of the “photo essay” that reached its zenith in the magazines of the 1950s and 60s, back when the presses churned out weeklies by the hundreds of thousands. Deciding to work this way is ...

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The etymology of the verb to photograph is to “Write with light.” That’s exactly what this young photographer, Kan Penhsong, does. He writes or, rather, composes, using signs that we find unreadable. They could either be some mysterious piece of writing or a pai...

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Montana Rakz is a professional photographer he makes his living from fashion photography . This curious young man who takes the potential of photography to the limits, gives us a self-portrait of great but unintended originality. Last year when undergoing a very risky medical tre...

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Our world is like a screen in a supermarket.screens are everywhere, in all sizes and capable of any function. And from their tender years, many have been in contact with them. Even those from families who don’t have a television or cell phone. By focusing on a small video parlor ...

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Nge Lay questions the very essence of ‘truthfulness’ in photography through her work that attempts to relate the familiar with the unfamiliar. For “Imagination Sphere”, the technique she employs is simple yet strong, using only two basic elements – a torch light as a primary and unique...

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This fifth edition of PPP is an opportunity to take stock. When inviting the 76 photographers who have been with us since 2008 to come up with new work, we were looking to the future, our wager was on the evolution of creativity, just as it was right from the start. ...

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Wang Lin worked as a stewardess for a Chinese air line and was fired after an unbelievable manipulation of her black and white images documenting the daily routine of the company's employees were put online with intent to harm her. She then put together a series of photomontages in p...

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To finance projects for publications and other contemporary productions related to Nicéphore, cahier de photographies, and also to grant new collectors access to the photography market, Serge Plantureux is organizing a two-day auction with Binoche et Giquello. The sale will feature a ...

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Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale at Astronomy Books and Space Photographs on December 12th covers five centuries of extra-terrestial discoveries including a first edition by Galileo Galilei (1613) as well as colour views of the Moon from the NASA spacecraft Galileo (1992).

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